ORLANDO, Fla. — When I told my fellow Halloween Horror Nights attendees that I’d never visited a haunted house before, they recoiled in mild panic. Why was I, an easily frightened amateur, willfully ...

The Halloween season has begun! That’s how I feel after the opening weekend of Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights every year. This is the 34th edition of their annual spectacular, featuring ...

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When I was in college, I went up to Salem, Massachusetts for Halloween with some friends, and we ended up getting kicked out of one of the great haunted houses they have up there. Long story short, ...

There is something singular about a haunted house. Castles and crypts may impress, graveyards may chill, but nothing unsettles quite like the domestic gone wrong—the hearth as harbinger, the nursery ...

Halloween isn’t the only holiday this week. House of Horror Haunted Carnival at Miami International Mall is celebrating Day of the Dead. Deco’s Alex Miranda, a renowned Roman gladiator, is still alive ...

The “Scarecrow: Music by Slash” house showcases a storyline where Mother Nature seeks retribution against homesteaders for their past sins. A slew of vengeful farmland scarecrows are unleashed to ...

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